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Swan Upping on the Thames

The Daily Telegraph online has 15 photos of the swan upping. You can find a link to them here...

You can find out more about Swan Upping here...

Online Courses in Archaeology with the University of Oxford

Cave paintings, castles and pyramids, Neanderthals, Romans and Vikings - archaeology is about the excitement of discovery, finding out about our ancestors, exploring landscape through time, piecing together puzzles of the past from material remains.

Our courses enable you to experience all this through online archaeological resources based on primary evidence from excavations and artefacts and from complex scientific processes and current thinking. Together with guided reading, discussion and activities you can experience how archaeologists work today to increase our knowledge of people and societies from the past.

View the courses available this term...

Twenty Years of Oxford Experience

The sun is shining, the participants are arriving and we are all set to start our twentieth year of Oxford Experience.

As well as the courses on the programme, we have several special optional events this week:

Monday afternoon – a walking tour of Oxford

Tuesday afternoon – a tour of Christ Church which reaches those parts of the college that visitors don’t get to see

Tuesday evening – ‘Morse and Me’ a talk by Colin Dexter

Wednesday afternoon – Excursion to Blenheim Palace or ‘Alice in Waterland’ walk

Wednesday evening – malt whisky tasting

Thursday evening – ‘Tales out of Court and thoughts on the English Legal System’ a talk by Val Dodd

University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

Exploring Roman Britain (starts April 2010)

Origins of Human Behaviour (starts April 2010)

Pompeii and the Cities of the Roman World (starts May 2010)

Ritual and Religion in Prehistory (starts April 2010)

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (starts May 2010)

Click on the course title for further details.

I'm not dead, I'm sixty-five

Tonight Chis Sykes and John Blackwell - otherwise known as "The Grumpy Old Gits" - will prsent an evening of songs and poetry in the Music Room next Tom Tower.

Oxford Experience 2009 – Day 1

The weather has just given us a typical English welcome with a typical English downpour, but hopefully things will improve.

I have already met some old friends and I am looking forward to meeting new people.

See you at the orientation meeting!

David Beard